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Dramatic pictures show aftermath of botched hit on Bulgarian crime boss 'The Beret'
- Published_at:2013-01-29
- Category:Entertainment
- Channel:mrabet farid
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- description: A crime boss nicknamed 'The Beret' was gunned down in broad daylight as he arrived at court to appeal against his sentence for masterminding a drug smuggling operation. Bulgarian mafia head Zlatomir Ivanov, 44, was shot four times in his legs, arm and stomach on the steps into the Supreme Court of Appeal in central Sofia yesterday. The underworld boss was probably shot by a sniper in a building opposite, a senior police officer said. Ivanov left the special police force in protest against the arrest of other 'berets' in the southern city of Haskovo when they clashed with local pimps. Two other now notorious Bulgarian mobsters, Plamen Galev and Angel Hristov, joined him in his walkout, according to Novinite The siblings, known as the Galevi Brothers, disappeared last year after being given jail sentences of five years each on organised crime charges. Ivanov was born on October 15, 1968, in the southern Bulgarian town of Gurkovo. Ivanov was arrested on February 7, 2009, after he turned himself in to Bulgaria's National State Security Agency DANS. He was charged with leading an organised crime group dealing with drug distribution and murders. A well-known Sofia drug dealer, Dimitar Vuchev, aka Dembi, has since testified that Ivanov ordered the murders of several mid-level crime figures in Bulgaria, including another leading drug dealer, Anton Miltenov, aka Klyuna (The Beak). Ivanov is also mentioned as a suspect in the assassination of mafia stories writer and former low-level mobster Georgi Stoev, who was shot dead in Sofia in 2008. His hearing was postponed in November because of missing lawyers and a fellow defendant. Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member, is still blighted by corruption and organised crime more than 20 years after the fall of communism, and is under pressure from Brussels to tackle the problem. Of the attack on Ivanov at court, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said: 'The site gives easy access for a shooting. If he had been in custody, he would have had protection.' Borisov's ruling GERB party swept to power in 2009, promising to put an end to a climate of impunity, but has done little to put corrupt officials or crime bosses behind bars, or boost a struggling economy that has encouraged crime.
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